Flagel Knitting Files

It was about a year ago that I started my first False Creek Cowl .  The plan then was to knit it in a lovely chunky maroon Cascade yarn.  The pattern included a very simple lace pattern, and I tried to follow the chart in class like we were instructed to do.  But after three hours in class where nearly everyone else finished, I was merely one-third through the project.  I wrote about that sad story here . At home that yarn and I tried it work together, but to no avail, we were doomed, or so it seemed.  So the needles, pattern and yarn were all put away until we could figure out a way to play nice together.  In fact it was so well stored that it took me over an hour of searching to find it recently.  But find it I did about three weeks ago.  Apparently I had high hopes to make False Creek because no less than 3 more skeins of chunky yarn showed up in the house.  (I so wish yarn would quit sneaking into my stash.) So it came to be that I ga...

I took a class last week Thursday on how to knit this lovely False Creek Cowl . Alexa's photo from Tin Can Knits - Scarves The class was a mere 3 hours in length and many who took it were able to complete the cowl in that time.  But no, not me.  I could whine that it was a long workday, that the class started at 6 pm, that I was caught in stalled traffic caused by an auto accident and barely made it on time, that there was no time for dinner, that the chair was uncomfortable and the class was too loud; but frankly those would all be lame excuses.  Look at that pattern, it is a very simple yarn over and knit 2 together combination lace-like look.  Heck there were beginning knitters in the class speeding through it.  But no, not me.  Here's what I got done in 3 hours. My purple version with purple/teal buttons to be attached. It seems if you can't remember to reverse the knit and purls when you are reading a chart as you ...